1. The anti-CRT thing is an obvious astroturf culture war propaganda operation (with the fingerprints of GOP dark money all over it). The fact that it's also designed to stifle speech deserves more attention.https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1405557550490259463 …
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3. The anti-CRT stuff is worrisome because it follows a pattern familiar in USA history of pushing schools to indoctrinate patriotic history -- going back to progressive era backlash against Beard & forward to McCarthyism. This stuff has been historically poisonous.
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4. If you took the anti-CRT bills intent seriously, you'd be hesitant to question idea USA is a meritocracy (or event the value of meritocracy as a concept) or claim that Indigenous genocide occurred. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/freedom-to-teach-in-north-carolina?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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That this doesn't surprise us but it surprises you should tell you something.
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and in fact many signatories have spoken out in favor if them
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Which is maybe a sign that the letter deserves its notoriety.
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yeah good call endorsing a bunch of people very obviously acting in bad faith there lol
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"It's inspiring badly misguided efforts at censorship by Republican state legislatures."--Damon Linker (a signatory)https://theweek.com/politics/1001555/critical-race-theory-is-the-new-death-tax …
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chatman couldn't even speak out about it without bothsidesing so really, maybe it's just you, and that letter was signed in bad-faith by a majority of its signatories
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I mean Yglesias had a post on CRT that wasn’t explicitly about these bills but did push back
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I wasn't a fan of his intervention because it seemed evasive.
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